"I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder."
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"An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence."
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"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"
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"Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow."
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"I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work."
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"The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it."
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"It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does."
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"Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own."
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"Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame."
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"Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it."
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"The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."
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"This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends."
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"When there's someone who's dead and then someone does something that that person would not have liked, they say that that person is spinning in their grave. But I don't understand why they say that. Why is spinning the way that a corpse shows disapproval?"
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"Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does."
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"Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?"
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"Does anyone really know where they're going to?"
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"A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought."
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"He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God."
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"The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows."
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"God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours."
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